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She uses bullets to kill
He was experimented on in horizon lunar colony
like what event? the non canon crappy pve?
No, current events like what’s currently happening
so hamham and winton is killers?
I don’t think so
New gun is clearly a dart shooter
She just used 2 kinds of darts
Healing darts and poison darts I guess
So basically there was a pizza long time ago who formed overwatch to fight off the giant bagel and ever since they've been in a war just fighting but then the Mac and cheese came and RE formed overwatch Again and that's how we got overwatch 2 thank you very much for listening
!!shitposting
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If ur gonna shitpost at least be funny 💔
With her current rifle no, she shoots darts
Theyre injected with either healing fluid or the decay fluid moira also uses, she switches darts in lore before she shoots so she already planned if she heals or not before
The darts would hurt more in the head and likely would be lethal as its a type of poison or decomposing fluid, moira seems to use it foo
no
Ana took Cass who was already a good shot under her wing
but Widowmaker shot out Ana's bionic eye and her injury resulted in her going MIA and presumed dead
that's an image edit
it's not real
it's either an edit or AI but it's not official art
Ana knew Amelie Lacroix through Gerard enough to recognize her, but I don't think they had any more of a relationship than that that we know of
there's no mention of her having any kind of expertise other than ballet prior to her kidnapping
just one day she was kidnapped, turned into a sleeper agent, then she was returned and killed Gerard (no mention of how), and she like killing so much she requested modifications to make her a better killer. Thus Moira/Talon had her heartrate slowed to make her a better sniper and that's why she's blue and a good shot
Talon
She claims to be trained by “the best” In her interaction with Ashe
I mean that’s the only option
Militaries wouldn’t agree to train terrorists, would they?
I mean the only ties with the government that we know of was Antonio
I mean he had ties
Since doom had to escape jail and not get bailed out like Antonio, I don’t think he has any
Vishkar us implied to not be about money
The gang is what i trust.
hi
the image is way too old to be ai
its been around for years
its just rly good fanart
it's old fanart
I know the one you're talking about
Amelie wasn't a sniper before Talon got their hands on her
fun headcanon though
Can omnics feel emotions like happiness, anger, sadness, love? Stuff like that?
yes
If Ramattra couldn’t feel then there would be no story missions
Considering that Ramattra suffered by seeing his kind hated, yeah.
And not even Null Sector attacks
Wsg people
Is echo considered an omnic ?? Or is she just smt else?? I've been kinda confused abt it
she's not an omnic technically
sometimes "omnic" is used as a catch all term for all the robots in the game but she's . not
she's like a really beefed up ai that can learn and copy really well
like if siri or chatgpt were really really good
but its mostly semantics imo since she isnt technically sentient but she might as well be to us
ooohhh yeah alr I see I see
Wait Echo isn’t sapient? Huh.
Pretty sure they’re directly interchangeable
Though some people will say “sentient is able to perceive surroundings, sapient is true consciousness” or something
i wouldve thought it was the other way around
most people do use them interchangeably, but they don't mean the same thing
sentient is able to perceive things, sapient means "having wisdom" or being able to think rationally
animals are sentient but not sapient (arguably; there have been sapience cases made for whales, gorillas, parrots, etc.)
i imagine in the context of overwatch thats not what they mean bc then echo would be sentient i imagine
Junkrat?? ☠️☠️☠️
ASHE???
Over widow????
Or Hammond
Or any of the omnics
Or ana
Even lifeweaver has more upsetting lore than ashe
Nah hammonds is worse than winstons
Did you read his short story?
Where he talks about growing up in the lunar colony?
The new short story in heroes ascendent makes his backstory seem way more upsetting
Ahh basically he grew up and was naturally a bit smarter than the rest of his family, and they kept doing experiments on him and he was removed from the rest of his family after a while. I'm pretty sure he talked about how much the experiments hurt him, and after a while he learned that his family was all dead
Recap
I might've missed stuff I speedran that story
Skill issue
All my homies hate junkrat
HES A PRETTY NERD
Mauga is ugly and stupid
I hope he dies
Nuh uh
Realistically lifeweaver would survive for quite a while he's been on the run from Vishkar for 11 years and he's still alive
11 years
Lifeweaver gets along with just about everyone I doubt they'd dislike each other
You don't have to lie
Lifeweaver is actually the most attractive character in the entire game
WHO looks better than lifeweaver? This dude?

Fanart?
Why would that count
Goofiest lifeweaver picture solos the best mauga picture you can capture
Third off mauga is ugly
LW doesn't do much for me
He's beaitful
he's too femme
Beautiful
Long hair
That's basically it tho
His facial structure is literally fantastical
And his head actually fits his body (unlike mauga)
mauga's head being relatively small makes sense at least
his musculature grew bc of having two hearts, it wouldnt change the size of his head
two mid people walk in a bar
maauga tho >
4 me
He looks silly
Mid where
Mauga would be the kinda guy to trip over a banana peel
Hes the type with super high standards and be into himself more than you
Lucio walks around wearing skates he's not slipping on anything his balance is crazy
Tell me you don't understand his character without telling me you don't understand his character!!!
Lifeweaver is in no way selfish
skarss
sorry im stereotyping
Yes I can tell
Happens to every feminine queer man 😞
Canon event
and he def a clean freak and takes 2 showers a day and brushes his teeth like 5 times those men exist
he gonna sanitize you before touching him
Nah he's literally so messy and unorganized
Like that's canon
Symmetra is the one who's super cleanly
She openly stated that lifeweaver is the opposite of her in that aspect
Obviously he looks very put together but I doubt he's that clean
Not to mention the fact he's constantly around plants
So he's going to be getting down and dirty
oh I didnt know that
then i take it back
but thats my canon idk gives him character to me
Nah man I have a PhD in lifeweaverology
That is called mischaracterizing!
fine just clock me like that then
lifeweaver is canonically kinda . gross LMFAO
not in a super bad way bro is just messy
like he left dishes in the sink n shit
He was probably so disgusting in the academy while he was working constantly
i just know his desk was awful
Sorry he's my special interest I feel physically ill whenever someone mischaracterizes him 💔
That's symmetra
Her entire character really
Bro def had coffee cups everywhere 😭
I understand, fictional men are better than real men
Lifeweaver is better than any man ever
Beautiful man
Literally jaw droppingly gorgeous fantastic amazing stunning beautiful everywhere he goes people stop and stare because he is literally just amazingly beautiful
hm
what is bro pondering
Me
He's thinking about what bouquet to get for our anniversary
🙏
idk i think hanzo better
Hanzo is old and stinky
well if he wasnt old

lifeweaver old too girl i just looked and 30 elderly to me
i was gagged when i found out most heroes old
over half the cast is over 30 man
Age ain’t nothin since people in Overwatch have longer lifespans
Medical science came a long way to make that happen
Literally there's like 5 characters under the age of 30
What kind of accomplished adult isn't below 30
Like these are world renowned scientists and inventors it's difficult to get that early on in your life
Junk is the only male character I can think of below 30
Oh wait
He might be 30
Isn't Lucio 29
Ramattra feels like a 40 year old man to me
murder
It’s the trauma
They’re not, it’s just perspective
Remember that as an omnic he was built with all of his faculties fully “grown” so in a way he is in his 40s
How old did you think they are?
Taurus lifeweaver
Honestly I think of older characters to be in their late 40s and older
30 isn't old
we're lacking in male heroes under 35 and female heroes over 45
how old do you think venture will be
IMO maybe mid to late 20s?
I feel like whoever designed them was going for a more “youthful” look cause of their gap toothed grin
Yeah they definitely look younger
I'm gonna guess around 30, give or take a couple years
that seems about right
she's the youngest human hero
Poor girl 🙁
to make it worse, it's likely that the solar threading ceremony happened on the longest day of the year, which in the southern hemisphere is Dec 21...
no wonder she carries so much guilt
I want more of her story
she's the only hero we don't have an up to date location for (as of Invasion)
Mauga update!
i need a hero to have my birthday one day
Im kinda offended genji is closest to my birthday
I'm between Widow and Zarya
soldier is 3 days after me
How they chose their birthdays? Randomly?
Got lifeweaver’a birthday 
Junkrat being Feb 29 was definitely intentional but what about the rest

Hi
Lifeweaver mention
Lifeweaver
Lifeewbevvvacerr
Ehegegegegegwgw
i imagine illari being born on a solstice was intentional
as well as ana and sombra being news years eve and day
Yeah but why Sombra and Ana
shrugs
I would put torb dec 31 and brig Jan 1 bc
Father and daughter
Every. Single. Character
he's 1 year older than me
the magic of science
Magic of overwatch struggling to make any female characters look their age
Overwatch's style does make everyone look a little younger
but they look fine
women don't look drastically older once they hit 40
Moira absolutely does not look like she's in her 20s
she's got greying hair and crows feet
same i hope we get more
I love how they kept Moira graying
Cuz there's no way she would ever care enough to cover it up ☠️☠️
some people, sure
but you can't make a general assumption that people in their late 30s have greying hair
particularly people with red hair are resistant to greying - the stress of Moira's self experiments probably accelerated her greying
which cancels out the redhead resistance
How was it an assumption
I don't mean you
the person guessing she was in her late 30s because she has greying hair
are they?
huh
Lucky reddies
my mom is 64 and only has a few strands of grey
she's got red hair
I wish I had gotten red hair
I mean... I do like there hair
You're the minority in that
that's two
rude

Yeah I think mauga is up there with rein
Orisa is tall it's low-key scary
U give off 5'3
im pretty sure mauga is visibly taller than bastion
sigma's gotta be like 8 feet without floating its ridiculous
SHORT
I'm 5 feet flat, only mfs i got on my side are lucio and torb
something like that presumably
medically, dwarfism is like shorter than 4'10 or so
I'm 5'11 
i think
I'm a freshman
I'm 5'9 
I feel like that's not that tall for a male ? Am I crazy?
It's not short but like a normal height ig
Hes 6'5
I'm not a guy
Ah yeah thats p tall then
I'm aware 😞
He's not even the tallest my uncle is around 6'7
My mom's 5'9 about
BRO 😭😭
5'11 ain't even that tall 😭😭
Absolutely
Dmg boosted thorns go so hard
Uhmmm 7 I think?
like 5
No it's 8
I checked
are you counting the grandkids
oug
what is that from
Torbjorn has 4 named children
Marta, Nils, Elvira and Brigitte
he has 8+ grandchildren
the children seen here are his grandchildren (and Brigitte)
don't trust google for your answers
Marta is a writer, Elvira is a neurosurgeon, Nils is an artist
Brig doesnt get paid
Shes the disappointment of the family
Neither does nils probably
Or marta
Torb is the biggest winner in overwatch since he retired
All the other old characters have sad lives
Marta's a pretty famous author of a weird paranormal romantasy series so she's probably doing pretty good
it seems like it's some faux-Twilight and ACOTAR mashup homage
Man they always take away her muscles
Who's stick figure is that
😭😭
that was before she had muscles
she was a twig in her first appearance
She looks so goofy I hope they never draw her like that again
U right tho
I just assumed she always worked out
she wasn't planned to be a hero back then
5 out of 30 im still in shock is this playerbase mostly old guys (im not baiting im fr)
Wait so I just found one of the hero ascendant short stories on the Overwatch website thing
Will they eventually post all the stories there?
No
the omnic crisis happened like 30 years ago and most characters were alive during the crisis
its that simple really
I feel her absorbing my soul 😭
She's so terrifying in the comics
illari is 18, thats close enough
If I remember correctly Dva was a child in ow1
Like not child child
But like 17
she was 19
🙁😥
Oh! That's very...!

And especially with the fan base I doubt they'd ever make a child character knowing the type of stuff would be made about it
bro is sombra
yeah .....
thats what I was thinking
Very true.
yall an interesting community
Like even a child mentioned (the girl from soldiers cinematic) gets weird stuff made about them
And also children revolving around violence gets really strange
I see the way people talk ab that hamster on twitter its not safe to add a kid
that poor thing
Wait so I just found one of the hero ascendant short stories on the Overwatch website thing. Will they post more of them there?
@peak escarp I call upon thee, heed my call and loreify me
Also for anyone wondering that’s how we summon The Warlored
unless I'm sleeping or at work
Where do you think JQ and WB's first stop on their "road trip" will be?
Surely Junkrat and Roadhog will stowaway.. at least I hope. They did them so dirty at the end of Friendly Rivalry!
wait what’s orisas backstory
she was made by an 11-year-old genius to be the defender of Numbani after Doomfist smashed it up
@worn latch i just bought lw the skin in your pfp
idk how to play him tho they gonna yell at me i fear
ty
Harbinger?
I'll teach u pookie (I'm not good at him either)
omg i just went against another one and he was cracked thats my inspo right there
is he like moira where you do both
ya that one his second best
Yes, you should definitely be healing more than dmging because dps lifeweaver doesn't usually work out well, but don't be afraid to pull out your weapon (if that's what you mean)
ok ty and what do you use the lift thing for
Use it for lifting ulting players
Enemies: orisa and Rein
Teammates: cass and soldier
Or just getting up to high places on the map
trolling
can someone tell me the lore on widow why she fused with a spider
i obsessed with her and just wondering why she like that
she remind me of a monster high doll
Black widow is a spider and widow is term when woman lost her husband
That’s not even remotely close to what happened
would be a crazy plot twist though wouldnt it
Amélie Lacroix the wife of Gérard Lacroix was kidnapped by Talon for a period of time
Until Overwatch managed to track them down and bring her home
Unknown to everyone, Talon had done something to Amélie that made her kill her husband and disappear again. Never to be seen or heard from for years
Upon returning to Talon, they’d slowed down her heart to make her the perfect killer with no emotion, which had the small side effect of turning her skin blue
Dang this ow lore is crazy
Fr bro
Only if you wanna see Disney suits
So much as use something of theirs without perms and you face their wrath XD
Probably why Blizzard makes it a point to make sure their heroes are completely unique and nothing like the same old DC or Marvel heroes
So what is orisa supposed to be? A cow? A horse? A bull? A centaur?
Disney don't own that shit as long as you don't call her spider woman
and blizzard had a 3 billion net worth they can afford that if it came to it
a water buffalo
Makes sense, but will always be a horse to me
Or they could just collab
Honestly I’m surprised overwatch didn’t collab with Marvel/DC yet
Bc Blizzard aren’t like the creators of Fortnite. Selling out to conglomerate entertainment companies just to keep their game alive
No offense to anyone who plays Fortnite
That, and in terms of Disney, it’s literally their way or the high way if you work with them
Isn’t that like the ceos new thing
Selling out to (story mode) keep their game (story mode) alive for money (story mode story mode is a scam)
Not what happened but Widowmaker Spider-Woman ala Miguel O’Hara would be wild
what
I want more story mode 😞
Why no story mode
Do you know how long it takes to write, build, and design everything that goes into the story mode?
The games been out for a bit add new missions please thanks
Here’s you an idea how long it takes to write the story alone
30,000 – 50,000 words: 500 words/day = 60 – 100 days.
50,000 – 80,000 words: 500 words/day = 100 – 160 days.
80,000 – 100,000 words: 500 words/day = 160 – 200 days.
That’s not even counting the hours having to build, design, and animate the heroes, the enemies, and the map all together
long enough they could have made it between overwatch 1 and 2 /j
Cutscenes, concept art, storyboarding
Actual coding to implement access
It’s been a hundred thirty eight days so they have that down
And monetization, for that matter
Of course the actual coding being done should take significantly less time and is probably done by an entirely separate team than the writers and character designers
Yup. Seriously, only people with 0 understanding in game design or anything that actually takes time
Don’t know how long this stuff takes
and even if you have all that, you have to wait for the higher-ups to say "yes, put that in the game"
Damn
People need to think like this. It takes time to create a series. It takes time to film a movie. And it takes a lot of time to make a continuously updated game
No new mission
You ever tried DMing for a TTRPG table? Doing that for a bit should give you even an inkling of what kind of effort and time they put into this
No what’s ttrpg
I’ve dm’d dnd
Not everything can be done as fast like a fake artist typing into a AI to make a picture for them
Maybe not even an inkling, like that’s probably less than 1% the kind of thing they’re doing
Tabletop roleplaying game
Such as DND, Pathfinder, Lancer
Blades in the Dark
Well then yea I have
For the most part on the fly it’s not too hard but then again the only story I’ve had to do that with was with my brother
...ew.
NSFW is not allowed
Um they had suravasa mission in the works before ow2 was even announced
Newbie reporting. Want to make more friends
If that was years ago, then it should be done already
im hoping and coping that theyre remastering all the missions for higher standards based on what they did with cosmic crisis and that halloween mode we got a while ago, including the invasion ones and archives
but this is HARD cope
me too 😩 it's also getting harder and harder to hope about the dev update on the 19th
it's been mentioned by two content creators now that future PvE is likely back-burnered or scrapped, though I'm pretty sure neither of those ccs were at the recent summit at blizzard so
idk, it's just discouraging that two of them have brought it up even though nothing is officially confirmed
it's just speculation
dev update will at least give us venture news (and presumably the date of the test weekend) and the mythic changes they mentioned at blizzcon
and "more"
only 36 hours left... hgnghngh....
So it looks like we’ll get pve missions once a year (at least a year)
Source for this?
My speculations lmao
Here's hoping
Though it did take them what like 6 years to come up with the 3 we got so... 🙃
To be fair, between a dick for a CEO holding them back and a number of suits (many connected with said CEO), and recently a significant number of layoffs
It’s no wonder progress was and probably still is slowed down significantly
I mean, ccs often just spread misinformed information cuz the negative vids gain attention
true
Look at stylosa making a "wtf monetisation!" Video every season, maybe 2 per season
No new comments just the same stuff said again
Honestly, you should never trust content creators on games
They will make vids on anything on a game if it means they get views out of it
ugh stylosa
On the one hand I like him enough but he really should move on from overwatch
I love how lately his ow vids are like "NO ONE CARES about PvE" and then he's obsessed with HD2 and has been posting vids on it
Like my guy that's PvE
Yea, well Stylosa will say and post whatever to keep his channel alive
He’s just one of many examples of ALL gaming content creators
Fr, he’s almost up there with Dream
I liked him cuz hexwas down to earth, now every sibgle vid is basically just "blizzard what are you doing"
Never goving credit when a gpod change happens
yeah I agree to the point where a bit ago I was saying "ok bro I think you need a break" and now I don't really watch them much if at all anymore
I have been liking Omnic Post much more, though he's not the quickest on reporting (he's still pretty new)
he seems to actually love the game/franchise
It just is obvious most do those thingsfor content, i once saw pneof those many im leaving overwatch post just to see that the next day they just posted overwatch again etc
whoever is constantly sending server invites, send it to me
what is genjis black watch mask used for?
to hide his disfigured face
not again
Is it canon that Roadhog doesn't seem to fear Overwatch or Talon? Because in game he can say "More like Over-rated laughing" (Overwatch member present) and "Oh no, it's Talon! laughs" (Talon member present)
i mean
makes sense
hog didnt even care bout his execution and stayed calm during it\
He's seen the apocalypse. He is the apocalypse. The man gives zero effs
what
Because both overwatch and talon don’t really care about him?
Overwatch has more important issues than chasing criminals and talon I guess I could see them trying to get Roadhog to join them but idk
well goodbye overwatch 2, literally no reason to exist anymore https://kotaku.com/overwatch-2-story-missions-campaign-canceled-blizzard-1851345720
we may just come back to 6vs6 and bring back assault at least if ow2 was never going to be made
Wow. A site known for relying on clickbait to get people to read anything they post. How very reliable
Indeed…
Note how they don't use any employee names either. Not even Kellar's name is on it
Every video game site uses click bait, every single one, but click bait usually isn't as elaborated, I trust more kotaku than ow developers who keep saying big things are coming for ow and pve is still on te works
I hope they compensate the people who spent money buying those
Fuck their scam monetization and missions, I will never pay for anything
I enjoyed them though there was like no one to play with
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they got what they paid for
No
40 min of gameplay and 15 of story, 4 years in development
If they cancel missions then we didn’t get everything we played for
can you even still get the lore reg role
Payed*
they're not going to remove the missions from the game
you didn't pay for future missions
Idk if they do actually cancel it though it’s a missed opportunity to have you play through the (or a) story which is probably very good
Idk
I agree with that
all that matters is that the lore will continue
in whatever form
short stories, animations, origin stories, etc.
I’d react with 💯 but they don’t allow it
You just don’t have react perms
I had them but they were removed. Did I do something wrong or do they just decay?
I don't k ow if this is inspiring or naive or anything, they cancelled pve in 2021 or 2022 and still haven't done anything to move thf plot
They just need to make a mini series, or a bunch of mini series. It doesn't need to be a full blown spectacular drama like Arcane
They just released 2 books
And a short came out in December
they moved the plot forward with the Invasion missions and the recent Heroes Ascended book
Side stories that couldn't matter at all
Wdym side stories? That IS the story
Null Sector's invasion of the world and Overwatch's respons to their attack
that's the main plot
Ok you're just being contrarian bc you want to be negative
Tell what happens, how the menace of null sector or talon, remember talon was the main enemy?, is fight
Heroes Ascendent is the story of how various heroes each grapple with internal and past conflicts while they are confronted with the Null Sector invasion
you don't even need to pay to see the story, people have uploaded it on youtube
But what happens
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That's not the book, is the scam missions of only 20 of plot that goes to nowhere because ends on a cliffhanger that will never be resolved
why are you here
So, nothing happens in the book?
But what else? Anything important, meaningful, anc, character meets another character, any step forward to stop null, sector? Or just a random encounter thst ads nothing and is like I said a side story?
So they actually cancelled the campaing fully ? ? ?
I'm not going to spoil the entire book here because you don't care enough to read it yourself
yes heroes meet each other, discoveries are made, important things happen
but if you want to know the details, read the stories yourself
you probably don't even have to buy the book, someone has probably uploaded the whole thing online already
they 're both canon
the Anthology is just a bunch of the comics put into a book
you can read them for free on the Overwatch website
Ill buy them
I love hard covers
maybe with the money from them they could make A STORY MODE
if only
Since 2021 or 2022
I care to read it, but I'm not going to pay to get thing that should be free on the game and still I'm not going to give money to blizzard
Is a lore channel and don't want to talk about lore, spoil me, tell me about this lore, if really something is happening what's the problem?
you're spreading misinformation and being a general nuisance
like I said, if you look hard enough you can find it for free online
I'm not going to spoonfeed you the entire lore
if this continues you will be muted
final warning
So sad, game with such good lore, addicting design, awesome character is owned by Activision. The battle pass / skin shop addicts
?
Activision owns blizzard ye ?
yes
so they have the main saying in stuff
I know but they're forcing it into everything.
every major multiplayer game has a battlepass
Just wish OW got bought by something else
they're not forcing anything, they're following a trend
if you want to blame anyone for battlepasses, blame Fortnite
but anyway, this isn't lore
@prime fossil I post a link, better source than anything blizzard have talked about the pve because they literally have said nothing about the pve, lack of information, an article saying is pretty much cancelled, confirmed, I really don't know what you expect to happen, like blizzard will relase what?
the article does not say PvE is cancelled "confirmed"
it says the future is uncertain
And you're just saying it's better than Blizzard bc it's confirming your doomer bias. Listen to yourself. You're saying the doomer clickbait article with unconfirmed rumor sources is better than the actual first source
Seriously, just mute or ban this doomer troll
They’ll say anything regardless of having facts or not
They think they’re always right and entitled to everything in regards to Overwatch
I really would not be surprised if this guy was Stylosa himself the way he talks
really, i got a wanrning about trolling? good thing this is about serious discussions
kotaku has lied to me less than blizzard, the clickbait of kotaku is the same clickbait of blizzard "big things are coming, lets make a great game, we listen feedback, we can talk about pve because is a big surprise"
who?
Yup you uncovered it. It's all a scam and Blizzard is lying to you and wants you to be miserable. That's how they're making all that money. 
225 million sound like a lot but for blizzard it isnt, ow1 made one billion in the same time
Wasn’t ow1 costing money though?
yeah, the price of two skins or one skin if the game was on disscount, pay once and get 6 years of free constant content
Oh makes sense, the skins like the recolour kiriko skin are ridiculously overpriced
The thing is this isn't even special mate, ow2 monetization is the average
honestly, jq was very fun in friendly rivalry
It’s severely overpriced, I’m not sure about other games but if we’re going on 0 coins in game it would cost 14$ AUD (10$ish USD) for a battle pass, plus the collabs which are like 50-60$ AUD just all together plus simple recolours being 1000 is legitimately insane
alright, all bps are practically 10 dollar, next up the collab skins if u get them all if u use the original value would be 100, then discounted to 50, which again means 10 per skin which is lower than most games.
for example: elite skins r6 + 15-20 dollar
apex skin: 20-25 to 150+ for heirlooms
valorant: 10 for recolour to 25 for change, can go up to 50
its not overpriced, why? cuz in its own genre its the norm
I think the worse part is 50ish$ <aud> collabs In the genre are normalised even with things like apex n league being costly the skins are usually really worth it and not really shitty recolours
Then again I haven’t played Apex or League in a couple weeks
thing is, they sell recolours for 10 too
just rn, theres an active event with ONLY recoulours u can buy
and a recolour heirloom for u guessed it 150+ euro
so your choice, 150+ dollar recoulour or what ow has
Shittt damn I haven’t played either in like 2 months what happened lmao
theyve been selling recolours like that a while
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why would it be zarya
it depends on what u see as smartest
it would likely be between sigma when sane, doom strategist or moira and lw for science
not really
shes not dumb
but not like SUPER SMART
no.
she has a toblestein
toblesteins were sigmas rivals
they caused sigma to rush his research
which well, caused the accident
not zarya, she simply uses the gun.
efi is not to be forgotten
zarya could track down sombra tho
but sigma atm, we cant really say
doomfist is insanely smart in tactics, same with ram, ram is smart too
but it would likely be between lw moira
lw created biological life
like
light that is legit alive basically
moira is also very smart tho
his biolight is natural material that he can just create
thing is, like TONS of heroes are VERY smart
hammond too, winston too
and mercy
mercy is also up there
yeah, winston
and soldier
hammond too
even hog
yep
but not as good as those
jq but shes also reckless
and dumb mostly
dva too
except mauga is actually smart
mauga acts dumb
jq is dumb
oh and cant forget sojourn for strategy
she was often a commander
Overwatch has several heroes with genius-level intellects
I think that the difference between Moira and weaver is that most of moira's accomplishments were in her adulthood, but lifeweaver made biolight before he was 20
but its very hard to say anything bout BEST strategist, or smartest or whatever
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yeah, and moira was mainly based seemingly on existing research
yeah i said about her too, she might be the smartest just cause she could do that at age 11-12
efi in that part is by far the smartest
13 and already designing and programming robots? kid's a genius
In the short story it's confirmed that he was 20 when he left the academy, so he also made biolight when 1. He was most likely a minor and 2. Between schoolwork and all of the other things Vishkar probably had him doing
not to mention one that could go toe to toe with doom
Absolutely she is
I can't wait to see what other stuff she is
Does
Wtf
sadly she is unimportant
🙁
but efi id call smartest for like, potential
Yes definitely
the Orisa story in HA implied that they will join Overwatch, so we'll have to see if that happens
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Damn
cuz atm shes not as smart as say the others. but if she keeps learning she'll be the smartest
havent had that to read yet
but she could consult for Overwatch
Young Sheldon ass
genius children often get special privileges
tbh, efi seems to have it all
none of the heroes are really stupid - even Junkrat, who seems stupid, is smart enough to build his own explosives
she has emotional, engineering, scientific (understood toblestein reactor) and strategy as orisa ofcourse needs to have been taught how to fight
I really don't think junkrat even comes off as that stupid, he's just loud and not socially intelligent... Like look at the way he talks
I can't spell wtf
well hes also a bit stupid
i mean
his cinematic
jq is kinda dumb tho, but she can remember stuff n all
thing is, jq is like the average intelligence
like a person who knows how to talk etc
shes not super smart, but shes liek a normal person
but it comes off as compaaritevely not smart cuz all others are kinda
well widow is the same
and leading
leading
being a leader
reaper mightve been the dumbest actually
yeah
reaper seems the dumbest
I feel like queen seems a lot smarter in her cinematic but they dumbed her down in game
he has barely any tactics, just shoot. in most of his fights that is
Which happens a lot with their characters, where they overplay one key aspect of a personality
he has been bested multiple times
even there shes not exactly dumb
In his defense monkey has plot armor
the in-game dialogue does play up the haha dumb musclehead aspect
I CANT SPELLLL
id say reaper would be the dumbest, as he also often was well too rash
look at reaper in mauga cinematic
Same w Kiriko and being sassy and snarky
hes constantly trying to shoot mauga
Reapers just a silly feller
yeah im fine with calling reaper the dumbest
Over rein?
does that mean hes an idiot? no.
Genuine question
actually yeah forgot bout him
rein is actually an idiot, but means well
all the heroes are a lot more nuanced in the text than in the game
Himbo
This is why I struggled getting a real grasp of dvas personality
She seems so different in her cinematic to me
dvas problem is that she seemingly has 3 characters
Yeahh
comic dva is slightly different from cinematic dva, we never get aluded to her actually fixing her own mech further. and dva in game is a dumb gamer girl
yet she fixes her own mech
she still had to instruct him what to do
nope
they're both shown working on it in Shooting Star
shes the "overworked self sufficient" girl
She's going to act like a young adult would act
i know
she was forced to mature quickly
Bro doesn't seem very mature in game 😭
my gripe with dva truly is how she just cant stay consistent
FORREAL
Same with kiriko at times
the best written ones are those who stay consistent imho
atleast ingame
for in game writing i want them to stay consistent
like we have in game for dva a voiceline about her being overworked, and a line for "i prepped all night for this mission, oh and maybe gamed a little too :3"
nor make it her entire character
yes
they make it not be quirky, but just part of symmetra
it's handled well
YES!!! this was my favorite thing in her new short story they go out and say it, like they don't hide behind it or anything they full on say "her autism". And also they talk about how it actually disables her with all her sensory issues
Ah it's great
And I like the detail about her stimming too
it shows sym as an actual good representation of it
and the way Lifeweaver respects and accommodates her sensory issues, offering a private car on the hypertrain
Sym is one of the best written autistic characters to me
FORREAL
And he also encouraged her stimming
agreed, shes great
🙁🙁🙁🙁 I love them
ive actually not given sym enough credit
Her routines and her strong sense of moral code and being very monotone and less understanding of social niceties
She's so me
cuz again, my biggest criteria for writing is consistency and being able to kinda understand them, maybe guess how theyd react to certain situations
and sym does that very well too
Mhm
the really impressive part is that Symmetra is so well written and consistent across multiple authors
Fr
ngl from what ive read ascendant is really good
I think that it's just because she's so consistent in and out of game that it's easier to write her
So good
Ascendant is excellent
ive read the junkers one and was hooked
it fills in what everyone else was doing during Invasion
Hopefully we will get more lifeweaver stuff next book (I'm praying y'all)
well, everyone except Illari and Sigma
yeah
Illari 😞
Imagine like the ruined and burned landscape of where it happened being in the map
atm illari is just like the tree in a play
I want to see Illari find peace and forgive herself for what happened
it wasn't your fault girl
personally my hopes is that its with that crater and talon equipment close, meaning talon found out
and they might be hunting her down
I think lifeweaver and illari should meet he could help her heal better than any other characters
I think her and Hanzo could bond over self-loathing 😛
i love how im all like "i hope talon will use her like a bomb for story beat for her" and you are like "make her accept it wasnt her fault"
we don't even know if that explosion is something she can do again
cuz i want it to be more complicated than what i predict aka, join overwatch, saving people and hearing it wasnt her fault, eventually accepting it
or if it was just a malfunction of the solar threading apparatus
Fr
obv, so talon would want to try to recreate it hence all the moira voice lines
I'd be disappointed if she joined overwatch tbh
maybe they want to make solar threading thing again to make her a litereral bomb
that wasnt truely her fault either
its like overcharging a battery and then telling the battery it was bad cuz it blew up
average
Battle iq seems high in that aspect she was a prodigy
she hasn't really shown any genius level intellect
But regularly she seems average
illari just is a girl who has studied
but again, theres very few interactions about any type of intellect
genius level intellect: Lifeweaver, Mei, Mercy, Moira, Sigma, Winston, Hammond
tactical genius: Ana, Doomfist, Junker Queen, Reaper, Sojourn, Soldier 76
street smarts: Ashe, Baptiste, Cassidy, Kiriko, Lucio, Pharah
worked hard to get good: D.Va, Illari, Sombra, Symmetra, Tracer, Widowmaker, Torbjorn
average intelligence: Brigitte, Genji, Hanzo, Reinhardt, Roadhog, Zarya
robot: Bastion, Echo, Orisa, Ramattra, Zenyatta
smarter than they look: Mauga, Junkrat
I was thinking more of people specifically noted to have impressive combat skills
Pharah is just average in that regard
I specifically remember in Declassified it specified that Reinhardt had average school marks. Not sure why that sticks out to me lol
Hm and the ones in "average intelligence," they all have highly specialized skills and/or abilities, kind of an overlap with "worked hard"
It's not really cut and dry
It's kind of what makes them all such good characters
You don't get that "why doesn't so and so character solve all the world's problems??" - they all have limitations and circumstances and conflicts holding them back
Where can I learn the lore? Learned there was a comic series, where can i find it? And does it start from the very beginning?
Bap in street smarts?
he doesn't have a formal education
but not like, university
Neither did jq
Also Cass was in overwatch and blackwatch and made a name for himself as a mercenary
I think he'd be just as talented as reaper in that regard
Maybe not
Like
JUST
But enough to be in a team with him and keep up
He also took out a fully armed gang in his cinematic
Idk I guess he did have medical training as a medic. He's probably just as "intelligent" as like an emt or army medic, no idea off the top of my head what kind of training and education that requires
So a medic is basically an EMT, then there's a paramedic which is the highest level of EMT and requires 6-12 months of training, courses and licensure
So ig it depends on where he fell on that spectrum in the Coalition and Talon
avarage is $20 per skin, what a dystopia we live on people is fine with this
another update of was coming next season and something was missing
get golden weapons again i think
that isn't confirmed
also that isn't lore
no
that was a rumor from 4chan
not likely
the "leak" got some things wrong from the dev update this morning
I don't think we have the same idea of street smarts
There's also this
is he talking about himself?
Yes
when could he have gotten several doctorates?
Dunno but he's very obviously talking about himself
In his short story he was also working at a hospital
what does street smarts mean to you?
also it's weird for him to say "I met someone the other day" when referring to himself
typically someone would say "I know a guy" when they don't want someone to know they're talking about themself
Who else would he be talking about?
And listen to his tone lol
He's talking about himself
Adaptability
I was more referring to where they got their knowledge from
learning from life experience rather than a formal education = street smarts
Baptiste could be talking about someone else
crazy how his multiple doctorates were never mentioned anywhere else
and he was so strapped for money that he had to join Talon, yet he could afford the tuition for multiple doctorates
i thought he was talking abt lifeweaver here but i just realized that makes 0 sense
lol what?
now that you remind me, this season got 0 new interactions, the shitty pve event have no interactions at all, and this season was made before everyone got fired, so next season will have even less lore?
verguco please touch grass and i mean this in the nicest way possible
anyway i love venture already
Thanks god he got muted
THEY LOOK SO GOOD TOO
nationality?
canadian
Bro does not have doctorates
Handsome is correct tho 🙏
I’m gonna get hate for this but, Siebren???
Wouldn't make sense
Like at all
That would be funny tho
- He has friends
Like where
- I doubt he'd be talking about someone in talon to someone in overwatch
He's so social bro 😭😭 u think he doesn't?
They look so gooood the model is so shiiny
Maybe but don’t forget the man has a bounty on him
I doubt having a bounty makes you immune to having friends !
Would you have many friends when you’re being actively hunted?
What’s the line delivery like
Flirty
Baptiste flirts with EVERYONE he's very clearly flirting with mercy
It surely increases the chance of someone finding you
It doesn’t sound like he’s talking about himself
Have you not read his short story?
He has friends
I bet he doesn’t actually have the doctorates but is definitely talking about himself
When did bap get several doctorates
Would not be surprised
He's a doctor who knows bro
Seems like a thing Bap would do for shits and giggles
wrong
He’s an MD at best
He’s a field medic
Medic and doctor r basically the same thing idk
Hell no
Noooo
Yuh huh
If it was no one would study medicine
Even Him talking about sigma makes more sense to me